Brent Masters (The Agony Scene) hates you

[Editor’s Note: After Brent’s departure from the band, The Agony Scene’s Brian Hodges clarified that Brent does not speak for the band in his negative assessment of Tulsa.]

Doug: In your bio – and even during Mike’s RoadRage interview with us earlier this year – you lament the music scene where you’re from. Where was it that you grew up where the music scene was so bad?

Brent: [laughs] I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “The asshole of America.”

Doug: So there’s really like 10 bands there and no other metal bands?

Brent: Oh yeah, honestly, no. There’s like…I don’t even know… We just did a home show there not that long ago and I had a hard time. I couldn’t think of even one band that was a heavy band to play. It took me three weeks to find three bands to open the show. There’s a good example for you there. That’s the thing – in a big city you’d probably have to turn a lot of people down.

Doug: How much did that affect getting noticed and picked up by a label, coming from such a musical void?

Brent: I don’t know how it really worked on the industry-end, but on our end I think it kinda made us feel pressure to work a lot harder. ‘Cause most people don’t expect anything to come out of the asshole of America like that. You don’t expect a metal band that’s worth listening to to come from Oklahoma. I know if I was from New York City or LA or something, and I got a demo from Tulsa, Oklahoma, I’d just probably start laughing, you know. [laughs] So I definitely think it made us feel like we had a lot more to prove.

Dont people have better things to do then still talk about metalcore bands from years ago? Besides how many people are actually playing music for the sake of creative effort and not worrying about their bands status? Calm down yo Im just trying to stir that stew.